Investigation Underway in Floyd County, Georgia

Gwinnett County election workers handle ballots as part of the recount for the 2020 presidential election at the Beauty P. Baldwin Voter Registrations and Elections Building in Lawrenceville, Ga., on Nov. 16, 2020. Megan Varner/Getty Images
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A Georgia county recounted thousands of ballots on Nov. 17 after up to 2,700 votes were found missing. Election officials say they aren’t sure whether the mistake was a machine malfunction or human error. An investigation is underway to find out how it happened.

At the Floyd County Board of Elections, officials suspect the problem might have derived from a scanner issue they had early on.